#1416958 CEV URCA - 2018 - Vestibular (URCA)/"2018.1"

Text II – Question

GUNS ALLOW PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES MUCH MORE EASILY

Perhaps the reason access to guns so strongly contributes to suicides is that guns are much deadlier than alternatives like cutting and poison.

Jill Harkavy-Friedman, vice president of research for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, previously explained that this is why reducing access to guns can be so important to preventing suicides: Just stalling an attempt or making it less likely to result in death makes a huge difference.

“Time is really key to preventing suicide in a suicidal person,” Harkavy-Friedman said. “First, the crisis won’t last, so it will seem less dire and less hopeless with time. Second, it opens the opportunity for someone to help or for the suicidal person to reach out to someone to help. That’s why limiting access to lethal means is so powerful.”

She added, “[I]f we keep the method of suicide away from a person when they consider it, in that moment they will not switch to another method. It doesn’t mean they never will. But in that moment, their thinking is very inflexible and rigid. So it’s not like they say, ‘Oh, this isn’t going to work. I’m going to try something else.’ They generally can’t adjust their thinking, and they don’t switch methods.”

Fonte: https://goo.gl/EFuEMH. Accessed on 11/20/17

After reading the text, you can conclude that:

Statistics points out that many young people commit suicide in the USA.
The number of suicides has increased because people have easy access to guns.
Once someone has escaped from an attempt to suicide, h/she will never try to do it again.
Once someone tries to kill herself/himself and is not successful, there won´t be another attempts.
It is fundamental to take the mechanisms of suicide away from the suicidal persons, since they won´t search another method right away